Francis redmond



(No Model.)

F. REDMOND WINDOW CLEANER Patented May 6, 1890.

' WITNESSES ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS REDMOND, OF RANELAGH, DUBLIN, IRELAND.

WINDOW-CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,363, dated May 6, 1890.

Application filed January 5,1888. Serial No. 259,834. (No model.) Patented in England November 15, 1887, No. 15,604.

To all whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS REDMoND, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, of 126 Sandford Road, Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Window-Cleaners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improvement in the class of window-cleaners wherein, generally, a rotary or reciprocatory brush, pad, mop, or other rubber is carried by a handle provided with mechanism for operating the rubber by hand.

The main object of the improvement is to facilitate the cleaning of windows or parts of the same out of reach of the hand without weakening the support of the rubber.

The invention consists in the particular construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvement, and Figs. 2 and 3 are side elevations of modifications thereof.

In general, in carrying my invention into effect, a long reach-staff A is provided at one end with a handle B, by which the cleaner is to be supported when in use, and at its other extreme end with a bearing 0, in which is mounted to work a shaft D, carrying a rubber-E just outside of the bearing 0, so that the rubber will be firmly sustained against pressure when in use. On the handled end of the reach-staff is mounted an operating-handle F, which is connected with, so as to operate, the rubber-shaft D on the other end of the reachstaff.

In the form of cleaner shown in Fig. 1 the rubber shaft D extends inward from the hearing 0, in which it is mounted to revolve, to a bearing G on the handle B, and carries thereat a bevel-gear H, which is revolved by a bevelgear I, mounted on a short shaft 1, j ourn aled in the staff, and to the said gear I the operatinghandle F is fixed as a crank.

In the form of cleaner shown in Fig. 2 the rubber-shaft D is mounted transversely in its bearings C on the end of the reach-staff, and carries a bevel-gear J, which is engaged with a bevel-gear K on the end of a long shaft K, extending to the handle B, and having a crank- Wheel K which is revolved by the operatinghandle F.

In 3 the reach-staff A is bent at an acute angle, so that the rubber can be applied to one side of awindow from the other side and the rubber shaft D revolved from the operating-shaft N by bevel-gearing N. The shaft N is revolved from the operating-handle F, as in the form shown in Fig. 2.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a window-cleaner, the combination, with a reach-staff having a handle at one end, of ashaft journaled in the staff and provided with a rubber at one end and a gear-Wheel at the other end, and a second shaft journaled inthe staff and provided with a gear-wheel meshing with the gear-Wheel of the first-named shaft, and an operating-handle, substantially as herein shown and described.

'2. In a window-cleaner, the combination of a long reach-staff having a supporting-handle and a bearing at one end and another bearing at the other end, a long shaft extending between and mounted to revolve in both of said bearings, a rubber on said shaft just outside the outer bearing, a bevel-gear on the inner end of said shaft, and a bevel-gear having a crank-handle for revolving the bevelgear on the shaft, substantially as described.

FRANCIS REDMOND. [1,. s]

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STEPHEN MACKENZIE, W. M. A. WATT,

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